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Misu Mac earned the distinction of becoming one of the lowest-rated horses ever to win a race when overcoming her basement mark of 23 to beat three rivals at Southwell.

The five-year-old mare had shown little in her seven previous races at distances between five furlongs and a mile and was sent off at 66-1, but her trainer and breeder Neville Bycroft put that down to her being a big, backward type.

Tony McCoy enhanced his impressive 45 per cent strike-rate with trainer Neil Mulholland this season on his final visit to Huntingdon when doing the steering on Southfield Royale in the Shoreclean Ventilation Ductwork Cleaning 'National Hunt' Novices' Hurdle.

Harry Fry is set to be double-handed in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Novice Hurdle Championship Final at Fairyhouse after confirming both Bitofapuzzle and Desert Queen for the Easter Sunday Grade One.